Being named as one of the Star Golden Hearts Award (SGHA) winners has been a transformative milestone for Native Discovery, a ...

Deep within Malaysia’s rainforests, a world of secrets and wisdom flourishes—guarded by the Orang Asli, the country’s indigenous peoples. Their gardens are not marked by fences or neat rows ...

“If there are any Orang Asli there, by right the land shouldn’t be alienated, but many times it does not happen this way,” said Mr Amani, widely known as Bah Tony in the Orang Asli community.

The Hornbill Guardians are also members of Malaysia’s Indigenous community called the Orang Asli. Since 2004, they have been working with MNS to protect the Critically Endangered Helmeted Hornbill and ...

Interestingly, some Orang Asli have found it easier to get jobs in Singapore than back home in Malaysia. Alcoholism and drug addiction among the Orang Asli are serious social problems among the ...

Malaysia’s forgotten indigenous children. Seven Orang Asli children disappeared from school in Malaysia last August. After 47 days only two were found alive.

Her hope is that the Orang Asli will be more daring to speak out. “Because if we don’t, who else will highlight the issues of our own community?” she asks. Eliana reflects Yana’s opinion that there ...

The Orang Asli community in Tanah Gembur, Bekoh, celebrated a major milestone with the successful completion of a water ...

“Any development activity carried out in Kelantan forest reserves exceeding 100ha must ...

Community pays respects to geneticist who embedded herself with the Temuan, and recorded their language and day-to-day lives. Dr Adela Baer published three books about the Orang Asli community in ...

FIVE hundred orang asli residents in Kampung Ulu Geruntum, Perak and Kampung Binjai, Pahang can now enjoy clean water via the water filtration systems that have been recently installed at their ...